We in ICEHO decided to support a Mexican grassroots initiative to compensate somewhat for environmental impact of the World Congress of Environmental History in 2024. My colleague Micheline Cariño has now written about what this initiative achieved.

Tomorrow's International Colloquium features political theorist and green political economist John Barry, environmental historian Cindy Ott, and philosopher of science Elli D. Vartziotis. All are welcome! More info here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #envhist #envhum

PhD position in the history of ideas at my old department in Gothenburg!

#envhist of space and #night

This is such a good example of what architecture has become to many people: surface, façade, visual aesthetics from the outside. It also shows how hollow much conservative politics is, and sadly it is easy to mobilize people with an appeal to the "classical" and "traditional"--even when fake.

We in ESEH NEXTGATe are organizing a workshop this month. Come join us!

In tomorrow's Tuesday colloquium, Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez, Ufuk Özdağ, Leticia Albuquerque, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer will discuss nonhuman legal status in Brazil, Switzerland, and Turkey. Event page: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #rccevents #envhum #rightsfornature #munich

Tomorrow in Munich! Read more here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

New open-access book: The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal, by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com. Download it via our Environment & Society Portal! #envhist #histsci #envphil

ICYMI: This essay by @palmblad.bsky.social is the first in a series co-published by @whitehorsepress.bsky.social & ICEHO in which emerging environmental history scholars respond to essays by foundational environmental historians... #envhist Read the full essay: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/24/i...

Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist

My @speak4nature.bsky.social colleagues at the Federal University of Santa Catarina have written a short piece on the local community's attempt at giving rights to the lagoon of Florianópolis. I've visited the beautiful lagoon twice and hope that their class action lawsuit will help saving it!

I just republished my short essay "In the Scale of a Human Being" from 2020, on how the "Anthropocene" is out of scale for the "anthropos" after which it is named. Originally published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. palmbl.ad/2026/04/09/i...

Today marks exactly 2 years since I submitted my PhD dissertation. Since it passed, it is now open access as required for public-funded research in France. Feel free to DL, send, cite, enjoy bits and pieces of almost 10 years of thinking about smell! Link: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

What is an environment, really? I reflect upon this in my latest essay, in which I write about my own path toward #EnvHist and the #EnvHum. This is also a commentary on Sverker Sörlin's great piece in the latest Global Environment. Turns out we have had similar but different environments!

This month I feature @harrissolomon.bsky.social, @jacobinoire.bsky.social, @publicbooks.bsky.social, @motherjones.com, @palmblad.bsky.social, @carsoncenter.bsky.social, @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sciencepolitics.bsky.social, @aptninvestigates.bsky.social, and more! #envhist

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and watching) from February! niche-canada.org/2026/03/19/e... #envhist

I now have a website: palmbl.ad. This is where I will gather publications, information, and occasional reflections.

This film was such a privilege to make. Please take a look! #EnvHist #histSTM

The 🌿Environmental Humanities🌊 section of Cogent Arts & Humanities is now open for submissions with @tstorey.bsky.social as Senior Editor 🎉 Read more about this vital new #openaccess section & how to submit here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/oaa... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

About enforcing age restrictions for social media: many point out that this enables tech companies to collect more data on us, but at the same time, social media indeed are harmful to users (of all ages). Rather than forcing them to add age verification, then, we should regulate their algorithms.

New entry in our dictionary: "Environmental History" by Jonatan Palmblad, Rachel Carson Center. Click the link below to learn more about how historians understand human–environment interaction in the past. www.speak4nature.eu/dictionary/e... #envhist @palmblad.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Today, we would like to highlight “The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking #Anthropocentrism” by environmental humanist @palmblad.bsky.social. In an increasingly inhumane world, this article argues that socioecological #justice can only be achieved by embracing human nature.

New page! Our "Environmental History Around the World" section is expanding, and we have now added a page with podcasts, interviews, lectures, and talks. This is just the beginning; Help us expand it by suggesting other series on environmental history! www.iceho.org/talk-series #EnvHist

🎓🎉 I'm happy and proud (and ofc relieved) that I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Rachel Carson Center (@carsoncenter.bsky.social) at the end of last week! #envhist #envhum #organicfarming

New #Speak4Nature article from the Rachel Carson Center: "The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism" by Jonatan Palmblad. @palmblad.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social #envhum #envjust

We are thrilled to announce that the ninth installment of our open-access online publication 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live. It offers a dialogue on human nature and the origins of environmental degradation, taking inspiration from tradition and Indigenous practices. springs-rcc.org #envhum #envhist

New #EnvHum publication: "The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism." Is humanity really to blame for the ecological crisis? Or are both humans and nonhumans victims of system that is bot inhuman and inhumane? I suggest the latter, and that an ecological anthropocentrism is needed.

We just republished Sverker Sörlin's new essay from Global Environment, "Staying open – shaping environmental history in Sweden." Download it on our Environment & Society Portal. This was published in collaboration with ICEHO (@iceho.bsky.social) @whitehorsepress.bsky.social #EnvHist

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

Today at 5pm CET! "Ecocide Speaker Series: Environmental History and Geopolitics, Palestine/Israel" zoom.us/j/96872519426 #EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #Ecocide

How is environmental history doing in Asia? It's thriving! Read Mu Cao's beautiful account of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) conference in Japan last year. AAEH is a biennial conference, so keep an eye out for the next one in 2027! #envhist #envhum #history

#HPbio #philsci #HPS #envhum

Our early-career network is growing! Join us if you are interested in #EnvHist in or about Europe. You will then be added to our listserv and receive updates on events and opportunities, and you will also be able to contribute to the network. Send us a DM with your email to be added.

Join the ESEH! As a member, you will contribute to environmental history in Europe, including our next conference in Salzburg, 2027.

New #Speak4Nature essay by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐡, director of the Rachel Carson Center. Originally published in 2024, this Spanish-language article tells the story of Rachel Carson's ground-breaking 1962 book. Read it here for free: www.fuhem.es/wp-content/u... #EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #RachelCarson

Interesting event organized by VIT-AP University in India. I will present on "Environmental Humanities at the Crossroads: A Constructive Critique." We #EnvHum scholars are critical almost by definition, but any critical theory must also (re-)investigate its own assumptions. This will be my attempt.

I just published an #envhum essay in Spanish on "Instrumentality and ecological personality." An ecological self understanding, I suggest, reveals that instrumental value is not a problem in itself, but becomes one when technology and modern society turn our use values into "abuse values." ... (1/4)

This week, our Argentinian partners organized a fantastic interdisciplinary seminar on 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 with Jonatan Palmblad (philosophy & history), Carolina Attallah (biology), and Gonzalo Bailo (law)! #EnvHum #EnvPhil #EnvLaw #EnvJust @palmblad.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

New date for this event on ecological humanism! #EnvHum #EnvJust @palmblad.bsky.social

Not sure if obvious or a provocation, but an environment is not a place. It is often used synonymously to "natural place," whatever that is, but it really is the world relative to an organism, or that which environs an organism. To think relationally in concrete terms, we must be organismocentric.

Our colleagues Pilar Peralta and Jonte Palmblad are currently in Argentina for our international project Speak4Nature. Through secondments with parners in Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, we work towards an international framework for ecological justice! @speak4nature.bsky.social #EnvHum

As of today I will serve as Associate Editor for the 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 journal together with Jessica DeWitt, Giulia Champion & Jonny Turnbull. Having followed EH since its early days, this is a great honor! @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social #envhum

As a part of ESEH NEXTGATe, I am glad that we are once again organizing a writing support program for early-career scholars! Credits to my colleague Mona Bieling for organizing this together with Andrea Gaynor. Although an ESEH initiative, we also accept applicants from other parts of the world.

AI does not "hallucinate," it provides statistically plausible results that sometimes are completely incorrect. I think it is important to recognize that "hallucination" is an anthropomorphizing metaphor. LLMs do not think, although that is what the AI companies want us to think.

I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhD positions available in Environmental Psychology at NTNU. Post from Isabelle Ritcher's LinkedIn account #envhum

Our team at #eseh2025 ✨️ having a good time ❤️ @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @monicavasile.bsky.social #envhist @eseh.bsky.social